Word: ails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chiang Conquers AIL The marriage of General Chiang was important because it made him the post-mortem brother-in-law of the Kuomintang's late sainted Sun; brother-in-law of Big Banker T. V. Soong; and brother-in-law of Dr. H. H. Kung, famed descendant of China's greatest sage Confucius, who also married a Soong girl. Chiang returned to China to head the Kuomintang Government at Nanking. He was soon styled the Generalissimo, and headed a campaign to conquer northern China. In this war there was by normal Chinese standards some fairly heavy fighting. Most...
...Texas Centennial Ail-American Swine Show in Dallas last week a Poland China sow named Royal Lady farrowed eleven shoats between noon and 2 p. m., entered the show ring and won the senior yearling blue ribbon and a $20 prize, returned to her pen and delivered another piglet, returned to the ring and won the senior championship and a $10 prize, returned to her pen and delivered piglet No. 13, returned to the ring and won the grand championship and another $10 prize...
...family together, counsels the young, comforts the wretched and looks out upon life's kaleidoscopic panorama with eyes dimmed but kindly, has become one of the most popular characters in stock. But in Great Laughter Fannie Hurst has created an aged grandmother who seems destined to end ail aged grandmothers in popular fiction. In comparison with her, the teetering representatives of the oldest generation in the Jalna novels of Mazo de la Roche are just so many leaping adolescents, the doddering Forsytes of John Galsworthy are scarcely of school age. For Fannie Hurst's Gregrannie...
...they cope with the present tenant system of farming the best they can: giving the tenants and sharecroppers weekly orders at community grocery stores during the winter months when gardens are impos- sible, paying doctor bills for the sick, burying the dead, as well as bailing [offenders] out of ail when necessary. These are a few items hat the social agitators prefer to leave unmentioned in their "demonstrations for the poor." . . . Miss Blagden may or may not have been a paid social agitator, but that her sole purpose in coming to another State was to hold funeral over a mythical...
...Dare Starck McMullin, an old friend of Mrs. Hoover, is the secretary who culls the Hoover mail. Secretary Paul Sexson, a handsome young Stanford graduate, goes through a dozen newspapers airmailed daily from the East and a sheaf of pertinent editorials which Hoover friends also airmail in from ail over the country. In addition, to keep the "Chief" posted on national and world affairs, the Stanford War Library, which Trustee Hoover helped to endow, is required to send in a daily report on the mutations of Fascism, Communism and the New Deal, all equally horrendous to Mr. Hoover. Furthermore...